![]() Every time you turn on the water, the noisy electric water pump has to turn on too, sucking up your RV's battery power. Imagine you live in a recreational vehicle (RV), and your water tank holds only 50 gallons. The sooner we start conserving water, the better off we all will be. As many more regions are hit by drought, this problem will become even more serious. People and animals in many parts of the world do not have clean, safe water to drink. Even if you recycle packaging materials, it takes energy to create them in the first place and energy to remake them into something else. Buy the product that uses less packaging material. Plastic water bottles are an environmental disaster! Carry your drinking water in a reusable bottle. Save the trees.ĭrink tap water-filtered, if you like-instead of bottled water. That's what you can tell your parents when they stop to buy their morning coffee. You should be recycling paper, aluminum cans, cardboard, food cans, plastic, glass, newspapers, magazines, junk mail, phone books, and anything else made of paper. ![]() If your city does not pick up recycled materials, find out who you can talk to about starting this service. Help them to remember to get them out of the car and take them into the store. Sometimes, in the big city with lots of traffic, they are even faster than cars! Credit: USDOT.Īsk your parents to buy reusable grocery bags. Stay out of the drive thru! When you go to a fast-food place, ask your driver to park the car and let you walk inside, rather than sitting in a line of cars with the engine running and polluting.īikes are a great form of green transportation. Even a 2-mile car trip puts 2 pounds of CO 2 into the atmosphere! Walk or ride your bike instead of taking a car everywhere. Sweaters, blankets, and socks are good for you and better for the planet. Turn down the thermostat on the heating when it's cold. Turn up the thermostat on the air conditioning when it's hot. There are even power strips that glow to show you how much power is going through them, and power strips you can control from your computer or iPhone. ![]() Then you can shut off all the power without unplugging each gadget. Plug these kinds of things into a surge protector or power strip that has an on/off switch. Unplug! Any electronic gadget you can turn on with a remote (TV, DVD player, Nintendo, Xbox) uses power even when it is "off." Appliances with a digital clock (like a coffee maker) or a power adapter (like a laptop computer) also suck power like a sneaky vampire. Turn off lights, TVs, computers, when you do not need them. They use only 25% as much electricity to give the same light. Swap old incandescent light bulbs for the new compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). You need transportation, electricity, food, clothing, and other goods. Your carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air because of your own energy needs. ![]() We should all plant lots of vegetables and trees! If you grow some of your own food, you will also help to prevent more CO 2 from entering the air from the fossil-fuel-burning trucks, planes, and ships that transport your food to you from far away.įirst Lady Michelle Obama gets lots of help planting a vegetable garden. Your new plants and trees will help to remove the greenhouse gas CO 2 from the air. You can help by growing your own vegetables and fruits. Some of the ways you can help may have to wait until you are a little older-like choosing an energy-efficient car, installing solar panels on the roof of your house, or choosing a " green career."īut there are many important ways you can help right now. We can help to keep it magnificent for ourselves, our children and grandchildren, and other living things besides us. We can learn how to live on it without making a mess of it. Yes! We can all take notice of our environment. The page may contain broken links or outdated information, and parts may not function in current web browsers. Though accurate at the time of publication, it is no longer being updated. Disclaimer: This material is being kept online for historical purposes. ![]()
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